Recruitaholics: Our #1 Recruiter At It Again

This picture below is all so familiar. To the left, shirtless (maybe this will attract some female viewers hmmmm...), is QB Shane Morris. The two he is talking to? You should be able to pick one out based on the old school box top he is rockin'...Yes, that's teammates Alvin Bailey on the right and Leon McQuay with his backed turned. I can only imagine how much time he spent recruiting these two studs to join him as a part of Michigan's top class. From the looks of it, he may be getting the job done! I mean he seems to be our #1 recruiter these days ya know?!

Derek Tyson of ESPN told me that Team Max Ex Blue teammates WR Csonte York and TE Khalid Hillhave been impressive at IMG 7on7 and noted that Hill was "a pretty under the radar guy." Hill is BIG (I never realized how big until I watched the championship game), versatile and was a match up problem all weekend. I believe we will see him move up in the rankings if he has a solid senior year. They both seemed to be creating very good chemistry with futureQB Shane Morris,who had a strong performance as well. He spoke with RecruitingNation during the event about his game, the weekend, and recruiting other players to Michigan (seeing a trend here).

Team Tampa, which features a few of the last remaining targets for 2013 in WR Alvin Bailey (recent visit reaction below) and DB Leon Mcquay(visiting in July), were to much to handle and beat Team Max Ex Blue in the Semi Final and then again in the final after Shane Morris lead his team back to the ship by winning the losers bracket. Mcquay and Bailey were spectacular and created havoc on both sides of the ball. If both of these two don't make a jump in the rankings, consider it highway robbery, especially McQuay. If it weren't for teammate, and top ranked CB (Scout) Vernon Hargreaves III, he may have taken home MVP honors himself. Scout has the story on how Team Tampa was able to take home the 'Ship while Steve Wiltfong of 247 Sports breaks down the top performers of the weekend.

2013 News

Steve Wiltfong also heard that S Dymonte Thomas had himself a day at the Cleveland 7 on 7 last week. He quoted a source saying "He was incredible! Will be a great college safety!" There is no surprise here as Thomas could end up as the nation's top safety when it is all said and done. The excitement level over this guy continues to grow each time I hear about him and he looks pretty swole if you ask me.

Top remaining target IL WR LaQuon Treadwell confirmed once again that Michigan is still the team to beat according to Adam Gorney. He participated in the B2G camp this weekend in Los Angeles and proved once again why he is flirting with 5 star status taking home Offensive MVP honors. 247 Sportsbreaks down his performance. A new highlight video has also surfaced. Pretty impressive as usual, if you ask me especially at the 1:50 mark and again laying someone out at 4:20.

Eddie Vanderdoes will not include Michigan in his top ten because
Michigan has told him they are down recruiting DL. If a spot opened up
he would have interest in Michigan.

Last Week's Visits

2013 FL WR Alvin Bailey made a visit to Ann Arbor last week and Bailey has Michigan high on his list. ESPN's TomVH gives us a little insight on how the visit panned out for Bailey:

"Michigan is targeting some top prospects at wide receiver, and the
coaching staff got its chance to impress one of the targets in person.
Receiver Alvin Bailey (Seffner, Fla./Armwood) took a trip to Ann Arbor for the first time and said the visit boosted Michigan's position.

"It helped them a lot. I was already up on Michigan, but this
definitely helped," he said. "I knew some things about them, but being
able to see it in person it meant a lot."

Bailey, who is the No. 5 ranked athlete in the country, said the
best part of the trip for him was seeing the Big House up close, since
he has never seen a stadium that size. After a spontaneous game of
pickup basketball with his friends, he got a chance to sit down with the
coaching staff to discuss what Michigan has to offer."

'13 TN RB Jordan Wilkins visited this past Tuesday and enjoyed the visit. He posted via Twitter that Michigan was a "Great School. I liked it a lot." This one is just to hard to figure out. He is very quiet and doesn't give much insight into his recruitment. I still say him and Derrick Green are the top two targets and getting Jordan on campus is huge, but this may be an uphill fight. He will make his decision before his senior season begins.

2014 Stuff

VA DT/DE Deshawn Hand will visit Ann Arbor in the fall. He gave everyone an update of his top 7 here. I don't see him panning out to be an interior defensive lineman (as projected by Scout) unless he puts on A LOT of weight but this guy is an absolute beast! He is arguably the top player of 2014 and any team having the privilege of adding him to their team is getting an automatic game changer. The fact that he is going to make a visit is huge! Hopefully Coach Mattison can use his inner Houdini like usual and get this kid to start off the '14 class in a big, big way.

Top OL Nathniel Devershas no offer from the Wolverines yet but has mentioned that Michigan is his #1 up to this point. I see the coaches extending him an offer any day now and may get a commit on the spot when it comes his way.